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FRANCIS H. LUDINe'roN, oF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of` Letters Patent No. `519,130, dated May 1, 18911.` Application filed August 14,1893. Serial No. `483,127. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be 1t known that I, FRANCIS H. LUDINGTON, of St. Louis, Missouri, havelnade a new and useful Improvement in Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. I

'llhe improvement relates to that class of registers employed in keeping a record of the attendance of persons at their places of occupation. Itis adapted to various employments and persons, and it is especiallyuseful in Sunday and other schools for registering the presence and absence of the pupils, and the Illustration herewith given ofthe improvement 1s in connection with such work.`

It consists mainlyiu a board having a series of spaces for receiving the names of the pupils, or other attendants, and having in connection with each space various sets of holes and corresponding sets of pins for insertlon respectively therein according., to the attendance of the pupil, together with means for facilitating the registration, all substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which-*- Figure 1 is a face View of the register; Fig.

`2 a similar View, upon an enlarged scale, but showing a portion only of the register; and

3 a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Flg. 2.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.` y

A represents the board which constitutes the foundation of the register. Y It is preferably of Wood, of any suitable superficies and thickness, and adapted to he hung up, as by means of the eyes a, or otherwise properly l displayed or supported. l

B B represent the spaces for the names of the pupils. `They are arranged regularly in one or more columns C. The spaces are preferably consecutively numbered, substantially as shown at D. The name, E, ofthe pupil can be applied to its space in any preferred manner and a desirable `mode is to put the name upon a slip, e, and, by means `of pins e', fasten the slip detachably to the board, thereby enabling the names to be easily re# moved or transferred. v I

When the improvement is fully carried out the registration is a` weekly, quarterly, and

. serted therein.

annual one. For the weekly registration there is, in each space B, a series, F, of thirteen holes, and f f are pins adapted to be in For the quarterly-registra-` tion there is a series, G, of four holes, and g g` are pins adapted to be inserted therein, and

for the annual registration there is one hole, H, opposite or associated with each space in which one of the pins h can be inserted.` The thirteen holes, F, are for `the thirteen Sun-` days in each quarter, and they are lled in acv i Y cordance with the attendance of the pupil.

In the case of the pupil whose name appears in space 121, thepupil has attended the first four Sundays of the quarter, and' the first four holes of the series are filled with pins f. In

l the case of the pupil whose name appears in space 122 the pupil was absent the second Sunday, present the first, third and fourth Sundays and the corresponding holes are accordingly filled, and so on, as shown, through out the board. The registration is supposed to be in the second quarter of the year, and accordingly the first one of `the quarter-series, G, in all the spaces B, is shown filled with a pin g. Two of the pupils, namely, those Whose names appear in spaces 132 and 137, attended all the Sundays of the preceding year, and accordingly a pin h is inserted in the hole H opposite each of said spaces. The last-named pins h, designating as they do a more important record, may be and preferably are when not in use attached to theboard in some conspicuous portion thereof, and to that end other holes h', are providedfor them as shown, `and as those pins are needed they are transferred from the holes h to the holes h.

To facilitate the insertion of the Weekly pins, j", especially when the insertion is by the pupils themselves, a guide Iis employed. It is substantially aslotted plate, or the equivalent thereof, whichis adjustable, and which, with each Weekly registration, is placed over the column of spaces F belonging to the Sun` day in question. As illustrated the record for the fourth Sunday of the quarter is being made, and the guide is arranged vertically over all of the fourth-Sunday spaces F of a column C, and it thus serves to direct the eye and hand readily and surely to the spaces `for that fourth Sunday, and the pins are placed in position by inserting them through the ICQ guide into the holes beyond or behind the guide. When the next Sunday comes the guide 1s transferred to come over the holes f belonging to that Sunday, and so on until thc holes f are filled.

U The preferable form of the described guide 1s an endless band or cord stretched some what taut upon pins or hooks t' and vl', Which are arranged at the top and bottom of the column C substantially as shown. There are thirteen pins z', and a corresponding number of the pins 'i' and in both sets c' and 'i' the pins are arranged respectively in line with the thirteen-holes f as shown.

I claiml. A register having name spaces arranged in columns, and having series of holes for Weekly registration as described, in combiister with each of said sets of holes substan- 3o tiall-y as described.

Witness my hand this 31st July, 1893.

FRANCIS I-I. LUDINGTON. Witnesses:

O. D. MOODY, A. BoNvILLE. 

